TGS 2004: System Preview Video

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An extended clip that shows off everything to love about the PlayStation Portable.

By Nix

Amongst the game clips at this years' Tokyo Game Show was a short overall system breakdown video. Most of the video filmed for this unveiling of the PSP showcase has already been known or seen in screenshots or news stories, but there are a few things that are new to those who have not seen the system in motion.

The system preview clip, themed after PSP's ability to PlayStation anywhere, features the usual glamor shots of the system and a few clips of games due out for the system (primarily the to-die-for Gran Turimo 4 Mobile). The video does show a UMD game being loaded into the system's snap drawer for play, then shows loading a UMD game from the XMB interface, which impressively features a full-screen theme of the game -- DokoDemo Issyo, otherwise known as the cat game -- and a running video clip of the game about to be played. It then gives a look at the system's various hardware features.

The blue XMB interface itself has several surprises shown, which include a Photo mode, a browser for either the UMD drive or the Memory Stick slot (and curiously enough, there are hints that games may be able to run off of the memory card), and what looks to be some kind of utility section (a toolbox is shown, but what looks like a wrench is only shown above Photo and Video mode, for reasons of which we can't guess why.) There is also a mystery icon in the Games section that may be for Memory Stick save file editing, or it may be to access WiFi features from the front end, or it may be something else entirely.